vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2012-5645: freeciv -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 30, 2019
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the server component of Freeciv before 2.3.4 processed certain packets. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted packet that, when processed would lead to memory exhaustion or excessive CPU consumption.

Solution

debian-upgrade-freeciv
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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